Bethany Rex holds a PhD in Museum and Heritage Studies from Newcastle University. Her PhD research – ‘Local Authority Museums After the Cuts: A Study of Other-than-Public Forms of Management’ investigated the application of community asset transfer to local authority...
Helen Paine trained as a knitted textile designer at Central Saint Martins (2008) and Royal College of Art (2011). Her PhD was sponsored by an engineering R&D organisation to investigate advanced methods for joining textiles. An interest in pushing textile...
John is a fully funded postdoctoral Creative Engagement Research Fellow working with IBM to explore the possibilities of a design language for artificial intelligence and machine learning. John has a background in photography, shooting architecture globally for...
Dr Jo Gooding, FHEA (RCA/V&A) is a researcher and historian who studied Design History at the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert museum. Her thesis explored the design of National Health Service spectacles and from this she developed an interest in the...
Marion is a systemic design researcher that explores social representation transformation that occurs during transitions toward circular economies and cosmopolitan localism. She looks for decolonizing and recreating new imaginaries by both developing creative and...
Ninela Ivanova is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher who specialises in working co-creatively with people to educate and inspire audiences towards innovation, collaboration, and new futures on a personal, professional, and global scale. Ninela holds a...